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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed on Tuesday
when a police jeep was blown up by rebels in Russia's Chechnya,
Itar-Tass news agency cited a local official as saying, up from
the 10 dead reported earlier.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suspected gas explosion tore through a
shop in northern Russia on Monday, killing 16 people, officials
said. "The explosion took place in a two-story brick building.
We are trying to discover the reason," said Emergencies
Ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov.

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